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    The naturalistic inference from 'fitted with a capacity' ... — Carmelics
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    The naturalistic inference from 'fitted with a capacity' to 'ought to pursue that task' conflates descriptive endowment with normative obligation, committing a form of the is-ought fallacy Hume identified.

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    Conflate(the criticism being made in the statement)
    To mistakenly treat two different things as if they were the same thing.
    Descriptive endowment(as used in contrasting facts with values)
    A factual statement about what abilities or traits someone actually has, without any claim about what they should do.
    Fitted with a capacity(as used in the argument about natural abilities)
    Having a natural ability or talent for doing something.
    Hume, David(as referenced for identifying the is-ought problem)
    An 18th-century Scottish philosopher famous for pointing out that you can't logically jump from describing how things are to claiming how they ought to be.
    Is-ought fallacy(as used in ethics and logic)

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    The mistake of concluding that something *should* be done just because it *is* the case—confusing facts with values.
    Naturalistic inference(as used in ethics and philosophy of reasoning)
    Drawing conclusions about what we should do based only on observations about how nature works, without considering separate ethical principles.
    Normative obligation(as used in ethics)
    A duty or requirement about how someone *should* behave—what's right or wrong, not just what's factually true.

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